Hi, On Jan 4, 2008 9:20 AM, PeS <pes@sandbox.cz> wrote: > > Hiamal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have tow disks(hda and hdb) where tow partitions(hda2 and hdb1) a > > part of one LVM group VG01. > > Now disk hdb has crashed and I'am trying to save the data on hdb1 to > > another disk. > > I tried with knoppix dumping(dd) hda2(works) and hdb1(don't work) and > > I also tried activating the lvm group and dd the lvm volume but when > > dd comes to hdb1 the disk just hacks and sounds noisy :-P > > Instead of dd try dd_rescue. It's able to skip errors on failed disc and > read the rest. > > > What should I do? > > During dumping, prepare you regular backup plan ;-) That was my backup server... Anyway I solved the prob running ddrescue from a LiveCD dumping the recovered data to a file on a new disk. It took ca 4 days for ddrescue to do the jobb. After that I had to mounted the dumped file, activated the LVM vol's and was abel to recover almost all the data. /h _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
